High school student Christine Ye, who has been conducting research with NASA Einstein Postdoctoral Fellow Maya Fishbach since Fall 2020, has been named the...
Strange ‘sonic boom’ accompanied unprecedented event For the first time, Northwestern University-led astronomers may have detected an afterglow from a kilonova. A kilonova occurs...
Aspen Winter Conference 2022 Exploring the wonders that lie beyond our planet requires a beautifully collaborative effort; a creative process undertaken by communities of...
CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow Mike Grudić (2019-2021) and Associate Prof. Claude-André Faucher-Giguère help Philadelphia High Schooler publish their first professional research paper. Henry Lane never imagined he’d be...
Young researchers ‘represent the scientific leaders of tomorrow’ Six Northwestern faculty members representing three schools have been awarded a prestigious 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship from...
Fong will use teacher-scholar award to study the origins of fast radio bursts Northwestern University astrophysicist Wen-fai Fong has received a 2022 Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research...
Image Credit: Northwestern University/SARAO/Oxford University ‘A watershed in furthering our understanding of these structures,’ researcher says An unprecedented new telescope image of the Milky...
‘For the first time, we watched a red supergiant star explode,’ researcher says Astronomers previously believed that red supergiant stars fell dormant at the...
Northwestern astronomer Farhad Yusef-Zadeh discusses his fortune in having time on the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched into space this month...
Largest catalog ever assembled, detailing 35 events, released today An international team of researchers, including Northwestern University astrophysicists, has released the largest-ever catalog of...
Image Credit: NASA CIERA Research Assistant Professor Giacomo Fragione was selected as one of 6 recipients for a highly-competitive NASA grant to design and...
On October 14, Phil Plait, astronomer and best-selling author, presented a public lecture titled Strange New Worlds: Is Earth Special? Prior to the lecture,...
